Mantícora Distribución has acquired the vampire story “While the Masters Sleep” by Santiago Alvarado Ilarri for international sales.
The film – which will also mark the debut of Spain’s La Mala Compañia, the result of a partnership between Magno Entertainment and Msp –will be presented in Cannes as one of the Gala Screenings at the Fantastic Pavilion, a brand new hub for the genre community at the Marché du Film. Sula Entertainment and Morbido TV are also on board.
“We want ‘While the Masters Sleep’ to introduce this new label. [It will be] focusing on genre films with a big audience potential, but trying to achieve this goal without losing the ideas and virtues of independent films. All the while shaking up the codes of classic horror films,” producer Joaquim Vivas said of La Mala Compañía.
In the film, Samuel and Lourdes are a humble married couple, going out of their way to...
The film – which will also mark the debut of Spain’s La Mala Compañia, the result of a partnership between Magno Entertainment and Msp –will be presented in Cannes as one of the Gala Screenings at the Fantastic Pavilion, a brand new hub for the genre community at the Marché du Film. Sula Entertainment and Morbido TV are also on board.
“We want ‘While the Masters Sleep’ to introduce this new label. [It will be] focusing on genre films with a big audience potential, but trying to achieve this goal without losing the ideas and virtues of independent films. All the while shaking up the codes of classic horror films,” producer Joaquim Vivas said of La Mala Compañía.
In the film, Samuel and Lourdes are a humble married couple, going out of their way to...
- 5/9/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The Fantastic Pavilion, a new hub for the genre community set to make its debut at this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film, has revealed its seven Gala screenings.
Over May 16-21, industry professionals will get to “appreciate the diversity of genre offerings coming from all over the world,” tease the organizers. They will also be able to create new alliances and acquire titles from companies like Raven Banner, MPI Media, Screenbound and Mantícora.
“The reason for the Pavilion is that we needed space to do better business and help newcomers integrate more easily, and faster, into this constantly growing industry,” says Fantastic Pavilion executive director Pablo Guisa Koestinger. “Genre needs to take the place it deserves and it’s Fantastic Pavilion’s mission to help to achieve this.”
British sci-fi comedy “The Bystanders,” directed by Gabriel Foster Prior and presented by Screenbound, will kickstart the event, followed by another...
Over May 16-21, industry professionals will get to “appreciate the diversity of genre offerings coming from all over the world,” tease the organizers. They will also be able to create new alliances and acquire titles from companies like Raven Banner, MPI Media, Screenbound and Mantícora.
“The reason for the Pavilion is that we needed space to do better business and help newcomers integrate more easily, and faster, into this constantly growing industry,” says Fantastic Pavilion executive director Pablo Guisa Koestinger. “Genre needs to take the place it deserves and it’s Fantastic Pavilion’s mission to help to achieve this.”
British sci-fi comedy “The Bystanders,” directed by Gabriel Foster Prior and presented by Screenbound, will kickstart the event, followed by another...
- 5/9/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolas Cage, accompanied by Australian actress and producer Nikki Whelan, trod the red carpet on Saturday night as part of the opening festivities at the third edition of the International Film Festival and Awards.
Set as a talent ambassador, Cage held small group seminars earlier on Saturday. On Sunday he will hold a masterclass.
His presence helped compensate for a couple of high-profile mainland Chinese talent absentees, presumably summoned North for the Huabiao Awards taking place in China the same evening.
The breezy opening event included a specially composed song and dance routine, a whirl of clips from films that will unspool over the coming week, and an elaborate ticket-slotting set-piece.
International guests in attendance included director of Copenhagen Pix Film Festival Jacob Neiiendam; director of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk; director of Sydney Film Festival, Nashen Moodley; artistic director of Chicago International Film Festival, Mimi Plauche; director of Busan International Film Festival,...
Set as a talent ambassador, Cage held small group seminars earlier on Saturday. On Sunday he will hold a masterclass.
His presence helped compensate for a couple of high-profile mainland Chinese talent absentees, presumably summoned North for the Huabiao Awards taking place in China the same evening.
The breezy opening event included a specially composed song and dance routine, a whirl of clips from films that will unspool over the coming week, and an elaborate ticket-slotting set-piece.
International guests in attendance included director of Copenhagen Pix Film Festival Jacob Neiiendam; director of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk; director of Sydney Film Festival, Nashen Moodley; artistic director of Chicago International Film Festival, Mimi Plauche; director of Busan International Film Festival,...
- 12/9/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Genre festivals to attend in support of Iberoamerican selections.
The fourth Edition of the Blood Window Gala will run at the Marché du Film from May 19-22 and features a range of projects.
The showcase will present recent films from Ibero-America with the support of directors and programmers from Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival from Catalonia, Mexico’s Morbido Fest, and Bifan in South Korea.
Upcoming Fantastic Films will show a selection of projects in development and titles include Los Olvidados (Argentina) from brothers Luciano and Nicolás Onetti, and Buenos Aires-set Necronomicon, The Book From Hell (Argentina) by Marcelo Schapces.
The roster features Infection (Venezuela-Mexico) by Flavio Pedota, Trauma (Chile) from Lucio Rojas, Belzebuth (Mexico) from Emiliano Portes; In Un Giorno La Fine (Italy) from Daniele Misischia; and Menéndez (Spain) from Santiago Alvarado.
Screenings include Hypersomnia (Argentina), the second film by Gabriel Grieco, Our Evil (Brazil) by Samuel Galli, and Jimena Monteoliva’s first film Clementine (Argentina...
The fourth Edition of the Blood Window Gala will run at the Marché du Film from May 19-22 and features a range of projects.
The showcase will present recent films from Ibero-America with the support of directors and programmers from Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival from Catalonia, Mexico’s Morbido Fest, and Bifan in South Korea.
Upcoming Fantastic Films will show a selection of projects in development and titles include Los Olvidados (Argentina) from brothers Luciano and Nicolás Onetti, and Buenos Aires-set Necronomicon, The Book From Hell (Argentina) by Marcelo Schapces.
The roster features Infection (Venezuela-Mexico) by Flavio Pedota, Trauma (Chile) from Lucio Rojas, Belzebuth (Mexico) from Emiliano Portes; In Un Giorno La Fine (Italy) from Daniele Misischia; and Menéndez (Spain) from Santiago Alvarado.
Screenings include Hypersomnia (Argentina), the second film by Gabriel Grieco, Our Evil (Brazil) by Samuel Galli, and Jimena Monteoliva’s first film Clementine (Argentina...
- 5/12/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Companies including Xyz, Wild Bunch and Media Asia are set to attend.Scroll down for list of projects
Projects from 13 countries will be presented at this year’s edition of Focus Asia, the co-production market held at Udine Far East Film Festival April 26-28.
More than 100 sales agents and financiers will gather for the event, including representatives of Xyz, Media Asia, M-Line, Showbox, Wild Bunch, Reel Suspects, and M-Appeal.
While last year’s inaugural edition of Focus Asia featured screenings and events built around finished projects, this year’s crop are all in the early stages of development.
The selection was curated from 72 submissions by a committee featuring representatives of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and the Nordisk Film & Fond’s Nordic Genre Boost.
The project teams are from countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and Laos.
The Udine Far...
Projects from 13 countries will be presented at this year’s edition of Focus Asia, the co-production market held at Udine Far East Film Festival April 26-28.
More than 100 sales agents and financiers will gather for the event, including representatives of Xyz, Media Asia, M-Line, Showbox, Wild Bunch, Reel Suspects, and M-Appeal.
While last year’s inaugural edition of Focus Asia featured screenings and events built around finished projects, this year’s crop are all in the early stages of development.
The selection was curated from 72 submissions by a committee featuring representatives of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and the Nordisk Film & Fond’s Nordic Genre Boost.
The project teams are from countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and Laos.
The Udine Far...
- 3/30/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Second European edition of genre co-production market to feature two extra spotlights in addition to its 17-strong line-up.
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its second European edition, taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival from April 9-11.
This year sees an expanded Frontières line-up which will allow more projects to participate in live pitch sessions. In addition, it will include a Market Spotlight, featuring projects co-presented by Blood Window at Ventana Sur and the European Genre Forum at Tallinn Black Nights, and a Seeking Director spotlight which will involved three projects in development.
The 17-strong Frontières line-up features the already-announced Érik Canuel’s On the Threshold (an English-language remake of Sur Le Seuil) alongside new projects from directors Alexandre O. Philippe, Casey Walker and John Harrison, and producers Carole Scotta and Andrew D. Corkin.
It also features Eugene Garcia’s Jessie’s Demons, the new project...
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its second European edition, taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival from April 9-11.
This year sees an expanded Frontières line-up which will allow more projects to participate in live pitch sessions. In addition, it will include a Market Spotlight, featuring projects co-presented by Blood Window at Ventana Sur and the European Genre Forum at Tallinn Black Nights, and a Seeking Director spotlight which will involved three projects in development.
The 17-strong Frontières line-up features the already-announced Érik Canuel’s On the Threshold (an English-language remake of Sur Le Seuil) alongside new projects from directors Alexandre O. Philippe, Casey Walker and John Harrison, and producers Carole Scotta and Andrew D. Corkin.
It also features Eugene Garcia’s Jessie’s Demons, the new project...
- 2/6/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Screenings started last night and continue through Tuesday.
The Cannes Marche is partnering with Blood Window, the Latin American Fantastic Film Market, on a series of midnight galas market screenings running through Tuesday.
The films screening at Star 1 are:
Gabriel Grieco’s Still Nature from Argentina (screened last night, presented by Blood Window);
The Incident by Isaac Ezban from Mexico (tonight, presented by Austin Fantastic Fest);
Fallen Cape by Santiago Alvarado from Spain (Sunday, presented by Sitges);
Darkness By Day by Martin Desalvo from Argentina (Monday, presented by Puchon);
The House At The End of Times by Alejandro Hidalgo by Venezuela (Tuesday, presented by Frontieres).
The Cannes Marche is partnering with Blood Window, the Latin American Fantastic Film Market, on a series of midnight galas market screenings running through Tuesday.
The films screening at Star 1 are:
Gabriel Grieco’s Still Nature from Argentina (screened last night, presented by Blood Window);
The Incident by Isaac Ezban from Mexico (tonight, presented by Austin Fantastic Fest);
Fallen Cape by Santiago Alvarado from Spain (Sunday, presented by Sitges);
Darkness By Day by Martin Desalvo from Argentina (Monday, presented by Puchon);
The House At The End of Times by Alejandro Hidalgo by Venezuela (Tuesday, presented by Frontieres).
- 5/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Set to kick off on May 14th, this year's Cannes Film Festival will see the premieres of many hotly anticipated genre flicks, and today we've gotten word of an exciting collaboration between Cannes and other top festivals that brings even more exciting genre fare to the event.
Per Variety, Ventana Sur's genre film market Blood Window will team with the world’s top six fantastic film fests for five Blood Window Midnight Galas of Latin American genre movies.
Four event partners collaborate to select one film each at the Blood Window Galas: Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Spain’s Sitges-Catalonia Festival, the Puchon Fantastic Fest, and the Frontieres Co-production Market, a joint venture of Montreal’s Fantasia Fest, Vision-in-Motion, and Brussels Festival.
The first Blood Window Midnight Galas line-up includes two sci-fi movies – The Incident and Fallen Cape – plus a rabies outbreak movie with Sapphic undertones: Darkness by Day.
The Incident...
Per Variety, Ventana Sur's genre film market Blood Window will team with the world’s top six fantastic film fests for five Blood Window Midnight Galas of Latin American genre movies.
Four event partners collaborate to select one film each at the Blood Window Galas: Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Spain’s Sitges-Catalonia Festival, the Puchon Fantastic Fest, and the Frontieres Co-production Market, a joint venture of Montreal’s Fantasia Fest, Vision-in-Motion, and Brussels Festival.
The first Blood Window Midnight Galas line-up includes two sci-fi movies – The Incident and Fallen Cape – plus a rabies outbreak movie with Sapphic undertones: Darkness by Day.
The Incident...
- 4/28/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
The 2013 Sitges International Fantastic Film Fest wrapped up this weekend with an awards ceremony, and the winners list is overflowing with horror films you should be keeping on your radar.
From the Press Release:
Borgman, by Alex van Warmerdam, was the winning film at the 46th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which awarded prizes to many diverse productions. The award for best direction went to Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales for the film Big Bad Wolves and for best cinematography to Larry Smith for Only God Forgives. The award for best actress went to Juno Temple for Magic Magic and for best actor to Andy Lau for Blind Detective. The award for best screenplay went to James Ward Byrkit for Coherence and for distinguished special effects to Afflicted, by Cliff Prowse and Derek Lee.
In addition, Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch received the special jury award,...
From the Press Release:
Borgman, by Alex van Warmerdam, was the winning film at the 46th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which awarded prizes to many diverse productions. The award for best direction went to Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales for the film Big Bad Wolves and for best cinematography to Larry Smith for Only God Forgives. The award for best actress went to Juno Temple for Magic Magic and for best actor to Andy Lau for Blind Detective. The award for best screenplay went to James Ward Byrkit for Coherence and for distinguished special effects to Afflicted, by Cliff Prowse and Derek Lee.
In addition, Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch received the special jury award,...
- 10/20/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
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